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Re: Opera just cost me big time. Peeves of min

Subject: Re: Opera just cost me big time. Peeves of min
From: Pa
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:16:01 +0000 UTC
Newsgroups: opera.general

"Lee Harvey" <leeharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:gobphg$p5f$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: 

> Next time, try selecting the "Use the same profile for all
> users on this computer" checkbox during installation.

I don't get this.  First why would you only want one profile?  I 
need a weather profile, a surf profile, a wife profile, and a kid 
profile.

Nearest I can tell,  Opera6.ini is in D:\docs settings\me\appdata    
, while my mail is in c:\old docs settings\some old me\appdata  
while Opera is installed on e:\program files\opera 10 beta.  
Whilst the override ini is in d:\windows\opera.ini

I don't know how this happened other than running with same 
profile for 6 years over several harddrive and window 
installations.

It would make too much sense to keep a profiles directory as a 
sub of Opera directory and use app data for the backup and 
failsafe, as I described.

I did a 1 week xp rollback (which alters all exes, bats, inis, 
cfgs and not sure what else.)  This got back my opera setup, 
except for wipeout of all contacts, 90% of emails.  At least I 
don't need to spend 4 days getting Opera back to a useable state,  
or resetup email accounts.

I will need to create a routine to backup the c:\old docs and 
settings\old outdated computername\opera\appdata dir.
I don't like backup docs and settings or using that folder since 
so much irrelevant crap is stored there like cache.  I save all 
docs and downloads to 2 self defined folders that no cleanup or 
virused program will touch.  (Revenge of Mozilla once wiped out 
my documents, ha ha.)
 

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